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www.guardian.co.tt TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO GUARDIAN, Printed and Published by Guardian Media Ltd, 4-10 Rodney Road, Endeavour, Chaguanas, Trinidad, West Indies
VINODE MAMCHAN
The West Indies
cricket team has
slipped further in the
International Cricket
Council (ICC) ratings
and is now on the
brink of missing the
next ICC Champions
Trophy tournament
series in England in
2017.
Bangladesh s series
victory over India on
Sunday has seen them
leapfrog the West Indies
into seventh position in
the table. Prior to this
series, the West Indies
who are inactive in
ODIs these days were
in seventh position on
88 rating points.
However, the
Bangladeshis have now
gone to 93 points by
virtue of winning
against a higher ranked
team than themselves.
India, with the loss, still
holds the number two
position on 114 points.
The ICC has set as
September 30, the cut
off date for the teams
to make the grade for
the ICC Champions
Trophy. Only the top
eight teams will make
the tournament. The
West Indies who won
the tournament back in
2004 has never missed
the tournament.
Currently they lead
Pakistan who is in ninth
spot by just a solitary
point. Pakistan will play
Zimbabwe in the series
next month and
although Zimbabwe are
Windies in danger
Visa problems hold
back Under 23s
---PageA62
Sir Viv relives glory of
first World Cup victory
---PageA62
Jordan Spieth --- the
new face of golf
---PageA45
West Indian greats, Desmond Haynes, left, and Sir Viv Richards, hold the CPL trophy which is at stake in the tournament now being held across the Caribbean.
PHOTO COURTESY CPLT20
Team .................Matches .Points .Rating
Australia ..............38 .................4899 .....129
India ........................47 .................5357......114
New Zealand ....42 .................4710......112
South Africa......46 .................5131 .......12
Sri Lanka .............55 .................5811.......106
England ................47 .................4592 .....98
Bangladesh........30 .................2804 .....93
West Indies .......35 .................3094 .....88
Pakistan ...............45 .................3915 ......87
Ireland ...................11...................549 ........50
Zimbabwe ..........30 .................1319 .......44
Afghanistan.......15 ..................618 .........41
ranked lower than
Pakistan, if they
beat the Africans
they will still gain
points. Pakistan also
has matches against
Sri Lanka---so they
can gain points and
get past the West
Indies.
The West Indies
will be inactive dur-
ing the period
unless the WICB
can make arrange-
ments to send the
team to Zimbabwe
as the Future Tours
Programme (FTP) is
suggesting. Origi-
nally there was sup-
posed to be a four-
nation tournament
in Zimbabwe
involving the host,
West Indies, Pak-
istan
and
Bangladesh. How-
ever it was scup-
pered
after
Bangladesh pulled
out. The WICB will
now have to seek
matches in order to
save the Champions
Trophy.
ICC ODI CHAMPIONSHIP